JOESPH STEWART
Indianola,IA
Summary
Highly adaptable Senior DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect fluent in many aspects of the health and military IT world. Proficient Army Warrant Officer trained to be a subject matter expert in information systems and manage highly specialized teams for multi-million-dollar government contracts with a focus on AWS engineering and Windows domain administration.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
SAIC
Remote
09.2023 - Current
- Led automation initiatives to streamline deployment processes and enhance system reliability.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab to accelerate software delivery lifecycle.
- Mentored junior engineers in DevOps best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Developed infrastructure as code solutions with Terraform and Packer to ensure consistent environment provisioning across four air-gapped IL2-5 AWS GovCloud environments.
- Provided ongoing support, maintenance, monitoring, and optimization of cloud resources through Amazon CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS SSM Automations, and Grafana.
- Conducted a financial audit of inherited cloud resources within shared AWS tenant accounts, accounting for an overall savings of over $2 million per year in cloud billing to the US Coast Guard.
Cloud Engineer
Spin Systems, Inc
Falls Church, VA (Remote)
07.2020 - 03.2023
- Designed and managed cloud architecture for Public and GovCloud AWS organizations for Defense Health Agency (DHA) and other Federal government agencies
- Created CloudFormation templates in JSON and Python to deploy and manage Amazon RedShift, EC2, S3, and EBS/EFS services for medical data and RedHat Enterprise Linux servers
- Configure and manage multiple DynamoDB databases for instance scheduling and change management
- Configured Athena, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail for efficient auditing and logging across multiple organizations while growing and restructuring company's documentation and cloud architecture framework
- Managed CI/CD pipelines through Git, Git Enterprise, and AWS CodePipeline
- Create corporate-wide SOP for AWS resource tagging within all organizations to ensure proper financial accountability
GS-11 G6 SharePoint Developer
Iowa National Guard
Camp Dodge, IA
08.2018 - 07.2020
- SharePoint farm admin and developer and Microsoft SQL administrator for two SharePoint farms with over 4TB of live data
- Managed 4 MS SQL database servers and 8 web servers for the state of Iowa to support over 7000 users
- Lead administrator for IIS and MS SQL STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guides) compliance during a CCRI (Command Cyber Readiness Inspection) from DISA, maintaining >90% compliance across all servers
- Design custom web pages for the Army National Guard using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, and PHP
GS-09 G6 Tier II System Administrator
Iowa National Guard
Camp Dodge, IA
05.2016 - 08.2018
- Performed help desk and hardware repair customer services for Iowa Air and Army National Guards
- Lead domain administrator for Army tactical domain managing specialty classified systems
- Windows server administrator for over 100 servers that provided enterprise-level domain services and software application delivery services
- Managed VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
- Created and maintained SOP and POA&M for IIS, SQL, and Microsoft Server 2016 with STIG compliance at >95%
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cloud And Network Engineering
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT10-2027
Associate of Applied Science - Information Technology
Purdue University Global
West Lafayette, IN11-2018
Skills
- Network Administration
- Active Directory Domain Services
- Group Policy Administration
- Cloud Architecture Design
- PostgreSQL & MySQL
- PowerShell / Bash scripting
- Terraform / Packer / Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- DevOps Methodologies
- Containerization Management
- Agile Scrum
- CI/CD Pipeline Orchestration
- Cloud Cost Optimization
Security Clearance
- US Top Secret with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)
Certification
- CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ CE
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
Military Service
Iowa Army National Guard, 10/14 - Present
255A - Information Systems Technician
Warrant Officer 1
- Senior manager of multiple 1TB server stacks for a brigade-level element with each hosting over 20 Windows Enterprise servers
- IT operations project manager and infrastructure authority for >3000 military, government civilians, and contractors
- Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for network infrastructure, security, and change authorizations
- Technical advisor to Brigade-level (O-6) command, influencing unit- and state-mission critical decisions involving communications services and information security
- SharePoint administrator for multinational environment across 4 domains in Unclassified, Secret, and NATO Secret level enclaves
- Technical advisor and trainer to other military units’ Signal/Cyber personnel to better provide services to their own unit
- Senior facilitator in creating and securing a Top Secret level SCIF with JWICS capability across multiple Middle Eastern nations
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
SAIC
09.2023 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Spin Systems, Inc
07.2020 - 03.2023
GS-11 G6 SharePoint Developer
Iowa National Guard
08.2018 - 07.2020
GS-09 G6 Tier II System Administrator
Iowa National Guard
05.2016 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Science - Cloud And Network Engineering
Western Governors University
Associate of Applied Science - Information Technology
Purdue University Global